The new issue of our journal number 18 which corresponds to the July-December Semester publication. The issue on “Capitalism of the Global South. Landnahme, Extractivism, and Accumulation by Dispossession in Latin America” coordinated by the professors Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela (Universidad de Chile), Nicolás del Valle Orellana (Universidad Diego Portales), and Dasten Julián Vejar (Universidad Católica de Temuco).

Each article can be accessed on our webpage www.revistapleyade.cl and academia.edu profile. Furthermore, the digital version of this issue can be downloaded and read under the following link. In a few weeks the issue will be available for download on the following index websites:

Pléyade is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the Humanities and Social Sciences funded the year 2008 by the Centre for Political Analysis and Research in Santiago, Chile. The journal is an independent publication since 2016. This publication encourages intellectual and academic discussion of political phenomena, from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives including political science, sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies. Pléyade is aimed at an international scientific audience and receives contributions such as articles, book reviews, interviews and interventions, written in Spanish or English. The journal is published biannually (June-December) in print and electronic versions.

Special Edition

“Capitalism in the Global South: Extractivism, Landnahme and Accumulation by Dispossession”

During the past decades, political economy has made a significant contribution to the understanding of the relationship between politics, economy and society (Weingast y Wittman, 2006). Nevertheless, capitalism, its classical study subject, did not receive equivalent treatment regarding its consolidation inside political science, international studies and sociology (Streeck, 2008). This relative state of abandonment of the subject has taken place in an intellectual and political context that favored the stigmatization of critical approaches to capitalist development. Especially of approaches that focused on globalization, marketization and their consequences, as central phenomena for the study of contemporary societies.

In this context, different analyses of capitalist development through its space-time expansion to non-capitalist environments constitute responses to the weaknesses of political economy approaches. The critique of capitalism in a global or cross-regional context would not only remedy the methodological nationalism but also conceives correctly capitalism’s dynamic of appropriation or colonization of the non-capitalist “other” (Harvey, 2005). Here originates the need to formulate an epistemological approach that is able to account for the complexity, inequalities and global labour division of capitalism.

Pléyade invites to explore the potential renewed critical studies of capitalism, which remain faithful to the studying of the dynamics of exploitation, capital accumulation and capitalist expansion in the Global South. Hence, this special issue will focus on the interdependent inequalities of Asia, Africa and South America. These regions, former colonies of European Empires, are considered as underdeveloped or as parts of the periphery of the modern world system. Pléyade invites authors willing to contribute with articles about a variety of problems posed by capitalist development in the Southern hemisphere, with an emphasis on the concepts of (neo)extractivism, accumulation by dispossession and appropriation through colonization (Landnahme).

List of possible Topics:

Differences and similitudes between extractive and neo-extractive processes.

Environmental, economic and cultural impacts of extractivism.

Spatial restructuring, appropriation of new territories and (neo)colonisation of space.

Marketization of nature and appropriation of metabolic processes.

Commodification and exploitation of natural resources.

Violent appropriation and dispossession experiences.

Marketization of social life.

Capital capacities and its limits to penetrate subjects and communities’ social and daily life.

Overexploitation and precarization of work and life.

Neoliberalism and its relation with extractive regimes.

Coloniality and new modalities of capital accumulation.

Formation of political resistance and social movements.

Development alternatives: post-development; de-growth; Good Living (Buen Vivir).